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The Cevin Who Would Be King

Cevin Soling is the co- or sole owner of most of The Satanic Temple’s various corporations but goes by the pseudonym “Malcolm Jarry” when associating with TST in public, including—alarmingly—on many of their legal documents. We’ve talked before about how before and during the early years of the Temple, Soling (as “Cevin Soling”) was visiting […]

January 7, 2023

Arrow pointing at white man in khaki pant and a baseball cap, text says "Cevin Soling aka 'Malcolm Jarry', co-owner of The Satanic Temple." Soling is flanked by two Ni-Vanuatu men in mlitary fatigues, with another man carrying a USA flag a few steps behind him. Another six paces behind that man is a contingent of NI-Vanuatu men marching in fatigues with wooden muskets. From a hut and at the edge of a clearing, more people look on.

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Cults

To Shame the Devil: Satanic Temple’s Lawsuit Against Ex-Members Fails Again

Federal judge in Washington State dismisses Salem, Mass., corp’s SLAPP suit for the second time [Read as PDF] Seattle, Wash. — For the second time in nearly three years of litigation, a federal district court in Washington State dismissed all claims made by The Satanic Temple against four of its former members. The Court found […]

January 6, 2023

Satanic Antifascism logo and variants

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Lawsuits, The Satanic Temple

When it comes to The Satanic Temple, there’s always more and it’s always worse

In short, The Satanic Temple is: But when it comes to The Satanic Temple, there’s always more and it’s always worse. Usually—and this is not a joke—when people learn more about The Satanic Temple’s owners Doug Misicko (“Lucien Greaves”) and Cevin Soling (“Malcolm Jarry”), and their business practices, the unprompted comparison folks make is “Scientology” […]

December 30, 2022

iceberg meme. Top layer: modern satanism, FREE membership, "Lucien Greaves", abortion ritual, religious freedom protection …Next layer: Marc Randazza, members forced to sign NDAs, 2018 schism, "Might Is Right", "Doug Mesner", SLAPP suit against former members, "I think it's OK to hate Jews …"

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The Satanic Temple

Be your best self

Tumblr Anonymous asked:I identify as butch but have lots of soft plushies in my bed… do you think I ought to remove them before I invite someone over for hookups? never see any butches with plushies tbh so a bit selfconscious @queermasculinedon’t be self-conscious dude. hoarding plushies is a masculine trait. your ancient shepherd instinct. […]

December 14, 2022

Tumblr screenshot Anonymous asked: I identify as butch but have lots of soft plushies in my bed... do you think I ought to remove them before I invite someone over for hookups? never see any butches with plushies tbh so a bit selfconscious @queermasculine don't be self-conscious dude. hoarding plushies is a masculine trait. your ancient shepherd instinct. if i came over and saw a butch had a bunch of plushies i wouldn't be like Ew i'd be like Bro, your deep intrinsic drive to protect and shelter other creatures is being channelled into collecting all these little yarn animals and tiny cloth people? kiss me

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Memes

How to spot when you’re in a cult

Print: [Zine PDF][Zine Mirror][Alternate Zine – In Order][Alternate Zine – Two per page, print front and back, flip on short edge] How to recognize that you’re in a cult seems so obvious and therefore unnecessary to ask that most people never even bother to do so. Consequently, it should not be a surprise so many […]

November 29, 2022

Image of Jim Jones from behind on a stage as he leads a service of The People's Temple, a large crowd in front of him

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Community, Cults

“Disability is great”

Do support your disabled friends and community, but for example, if an artist is doing a commission for you, listen to them very specifically about how the payments are going to work. The USA’s policy toward disabled people, like many people, is best described as “eugenics… but make it a little less obvious”, so the […]

November 18, 2022

Satanic Antifascism logo as the wheel to an "accessible" symbol, the variant with the person in the wheelchair leaning forward

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Memes

A better world was possible (a better world still is)

Tumblr @avramchajabeing a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns- @meirmakesstuffWWII alternate history stories always go “What if the Nazis won.” WHAT IF THE JEWS LIVED? @kanguinThat’s actually such […]

November 9, 2022

Tumblr @avramchaja being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns- @meirmakesstuff WWII alternate history stories always go “What if the Nazis won.” WHAT IF THE JEWS LIVED? @kanguin That’s actually such a good point about alternative history. So many ask “what if we got the bad ending?”, ignorant of the fact we did, that’s just a worse ending. Asking “what if the Nazis won” allows one to live in the safe world where the Nazis were the root source of evil in WWII. Asking “what if the Jews lived” forces you to confront the fact that almost all of Europe was complicit in their eradication. Every European power, the United states, everyone involved hated the Jewish people. Everyone was complicit in antisemitism, everyone just sat back and let it happen. It took an invasion of Poland for the UK and France to act, and it took a direct attack on the US for the US to officially get involved. All of the torture, enslavement, and murder of Jews before this were overlooked because not even below the surface, the German antisemitism wasn’t unique. And basically nobody has the guts to address that.

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Memes

Fat disabled people, gender, and sexuality

Tumblr @corporealphantomReminder that fat disabled people exist and have a sexuality. Reminder that fat disabled people can be queer. They can be bi, pan, lesbian, gay, ace. They can be trans. They can be loud and provocative, or gentle and soft. Fat disabled people can be desired and can also desire. They can be saucy, […]

October 26, 2022

corporealphantom Reminder that fat disabled people exist and have a sexuality. Reminder that fat disabled people can be queer. They can be bi, pan, lesbian, gay, ace. They can be trans. They can be loud and provocative, or gentle and soft. Fat disabled people can be desired and can also desire. They can be saucy, and flirtatious. They can feel at home in their own bodies, and they can make love to themselves. Fat disabled people can be seductive, and surprising. They can attract men, or women, or any gender beyond, combined, or in between. They can enjoy what they look like in the mirror, or in risque clothes. Fat disabled people can love the feel of their body pressed to another's, or be turned on when their partner writes a smutty text to them. They can be bold or inhibited, they can by coy. Fat disabled people can feel sexy when they move from their mobility devices to the bed. They can feel hot in their sex swings, and on their wedges, or using their canes. They can feel sexy when their partners fingers sink into the flesh of their thighs, and bellies, and buttocks. Fat disabled people can be kinky. They can be dominant, submissive, or switch. Fat disabled people are have the full spectrum of sexuality, because fat disabled people are human beings with agency over their bodies.

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Memes

Stop searching for the right way to shout “Rumpelstiltskin!” at conservatives

Please stop doing this. Queen Mab may be bound by clever wordplay, but conservatives are not the fey. The devil may be forced to keep his promises, but Christian Nationalists are not restrained by the same integrity as Old Scratch. “Oh-ho! They didn’t think through their own rules, hmm? What fools! Don’t they even know […]

October 12, 2022

No "literature" "involving" "sexual orientation or related subjects" for under 10s? So Fantastic Mr Fox, Owl Moon, The Cat in the Hat, and any other book involving heterosexual couples is banned? GOP really don't think straight is a "sexual orientation," do they. — Joshua Libling (@JJLibling) October 18, 2022

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Memes

Gwen Snyder on common cult dynamics

Originally tweeted by antifascist, organizer, writer, bitchmedia contributor Gwen Snyder (@gwensnyderPHL) on August 21, 2022. The Caleb Maupin stuff is horrifying, and horrifying in part because several of his cult tactics are often used by a number of left and “progressive” folks/organizations who seek to exploit young idealists and exploit their labor for profit and […]

August 21, 2022

Two people with a black bars obscuring their eyes stand behind a Grassroots Campaigns recruitment table with pamphlets

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